Product Review — Ideal Sweetener
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November 2010
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My mom’s birthday always falls near Thanksgiving which means our feast includes birthday cake. This year, because the recipe caught my eye and because I was baking a cake for my mother, I chose to make Mom’s Chocolate Cake from the current issue of Food & Wine. It’s by Marcia Kiesel who got it from her friend Joyce Cole. Joyce Cole got it from her mot
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Published on November 28, 2010
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Every Thanksgiving I make too much cranberry sauce. Usually it goes home with my mom, but this year she didn’t take a to-go box and we were left with almost 2 cups. Rather than use it in a sweet/savory dish, I took the easy route and baked some of it into muffins. These have big crowns and swirls of cranberry throughout. I like muffins with big rims, so I piled the muffin batter into the cups. For shorter muffins, fill just to the top and make 9.
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Published on November 27, 2010
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Thanks to my stepmother, who told me about this soup, one of the standard items on my Thanksgiving shopping list is a poblano pepper. The combination of turkey and poblano in soup form is the absolute perfect post-Thanksgiving Day lunch. This soup is creamy, rich (but not overly so — it only has …
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Published on November 26, 2010
